Principal Systems Engineer
- Location:
- Middletown, Rhode Island, United States of America
About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman solves the toughest problems in space, aeronautics, defense and cyberspace to meet the ever-evolving needs of our customers worldwide. Our 90,000 employees are Defining Possible every day using science, technology and engineering to create and deliver advanced systems, products and services. Northrop Grumman careers and internships are as varied as your interests, with a lifetime of potential that will allow you to work together with people from many backgrounds, personal passions and disciplines.
Northrop Grumman is seeking a Linux Engineer to join our Submarine Trainer Development Team supporting the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI. You will work with latest generation Intel based servers, Linux cluster configurations and virtualization architectures including Red Hat KVM. You will be responsible for designing, installing, monitoring, optimizing, and troubleshooting our large-scale System of Systems architecture building high-fidelity simulation, training, and analysis products for the US Navy. This position requires US Citizenship, a DoD Secret Security clearance, and is full-time onsite.
The responsibilities for this position are to design, develop, install, and integrate submarine training systems. Qualified applicants will perform the following tasks:
- Install, configure, test, and maintain operating systems, system services, application software and system management tools for Linux systems, both natively and within virtual machines
- Work with team to monitor and test applications, virtual machines, and containers to identify issues with installation and performance.
- Troubleshoot Information Technology (IT) Systems to diagnose and suggest/implement potential solutions.
- Support physical hardware installation of IT computing equipment and cabling at both local and remote sites.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Engineering or other related field and 5 years experience OR Master’s Degree with 3 years of experience bachelor's OR 9 years in lieu of degree
- Experience with bash scripting.
- Experience with virtualization technologies, preferably Red Hat KVM (e.g., Red Hat KVM, VMware, libvirt/virsh)
- Networking knowledge (OSI Network Layers, TCP/IP, DHCP)
- US Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance
- Ability to work on site at Middletown RI.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Active Security Clearance
- Current IAT Level I Certifications
- Network+
- Security+
- Linux+
- Experience with Cisco switch/router configuration development and deployment
- Experience with System Build Automation Tools (Linux kickstart, Puppet, Windows Deployment Server (WDS)
- Computer/Electronics Hardware knowledge
- Intel server configurations
- Configuration management experience with both centralized and distributed version control systems (e.g., SVN and Git)
- Experience with submarine tactical systems.
- Navy junior officer experience.